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Florida’s New Growth Management Laws Impact Leon County. Facilitator: Wayne Tedder, Director of the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department. Panelists:.
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Florida’s New Growth Management Laws ImpactLeon County Facilitator: Wayne Tedder, Director of the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department
Panelists: Cari Roth, AttorneyBryant Miller Olive, Tallahassee Val Hubbard, DirectorDivision of Community PlanningFlorida Department of Community AffairsNancy Linnan, Environmental/Land Use AttorneyCarlton Fields, TallahasseeTom Pelham, AttorneyFowler White Boggs Banker, TallahasseeJon Cramer, Executive Director of Planning and PolicyLeon County School BoardEric Poole, Growth and Environmental LobbyistFlorida Association of Counties
Senate Bill (SB) 360 What is it?
CONCURRENCY DEFINED (Rule 9J-5.0055(1)) Each local government shall adopt, as a component of the comprehensive plan, objectives, policies and standards for the establishment of a concurrency management system. The concurrency management system will ensure that issuance of a development order or development permit is conditioned upon the availability of public facilities and services necessary to serve new development …
State Mandated Concurrency Services • Water • Sewer• Transportation• Parks and Recreation• Stormwater• Solid Waste• And now… Schools
Senate Bill 360 (SB 360) Targets… • Transportation Concurrency• School Concurrency• Water Concurrency
Concurrency Today Transportation Concurrency – Allows Diminimus (Every project can add trips to a deficient roadway) School Concurrency – Not Required Water Concurrency – Not a Problem for Leon County
Concurrency in the Future Transportation Concurrency – No Diminimus (No trips can be added to a deficient street) School Concurrency – Mandatory (By School Zones) Water Concurrency – Not a Problem for Leon County
How does SB 360 affect Leon County? • Comprehensive Plan Amendments• Rezonings• Site and Development Plans
How does SB 360 affect Leon County? Comprehensive Plan Amendments• Reviewed individually and cumulatively to determine their impacts to public schools and roadways.• If an amendment exceeds the adopted level of service, then a capital improvement to address the deficiency must be included in the 5-year CIP (and Comp Plan) before it can be approved.
How does SB 360 affect Leon County? Rezonings• Currently – Concurrency review is not required.• In the Future – Concurrency review will probably be required.
How does SB 360 affect Leon County? Rezonings • Will the rezoning result in an impact to a road or school that is not programmed for improvement in the 3-year CIP?Yes – May not obtain approval. If approved - The County will likely see pressure to add the public services in the next budget cycle, thus reprioritizing existing funding. • Will the rezoning result in an impact to a road or school that is programmed for improvement in the 3-year CIP? Yes – Free Pass! ….If improvement is in the 4th or 5th year of the CIP, then developer must pay proportionate share.
How does SB 360 affect Leon County?Site and Development Plans • Will the development result in an impact to a road or school that is not programmed for improvement in the 3-year CIP?Yes – Development must be scaled down to no impacts or government agrees to add an improvement to their CIP. • Will the development result in an impact to a road or school that is programmed for improvement in the 3-year CIP?Yes – Free Pass! ….If improvement is in the 4th or 5th year of the CIP, then developer must pay proportionate share.
Student Generation Rates Estimating Student Generation • Student generation tables developed by School District • Based on location and type of development • Formulated on actual experience in Leon County
Costs Per Student Station Cost per student station includes all costs associated with: • Construction • Furnishing and equipping a school • Site improvement costs Does not include land costs or offsite improvements
Mitigation Options • Contribution of Land • Payment for land acquisition • Construction of new or expansion of existing public school facility • Portables meeting current code standards where core capacity available • Developer-established mitigation banks • Code Compliant Charter School construction
Use of ProportionateShare Mitigation • School Board must direct mitigation toward a school capacity improvement • School capacity improvement must be identified in a “financially feasible” 5-year District work plan • Must satisfy the demands created by that development
What ALL Cities and Counties MUST do to comply with SB 360! • December 1, 2006 – Adopt a transportation proportionate share ordinance. • December 1, 2007 – All 5-year Capital Improvement Elements (in Comprehensive Plan) shall be financially feasible. • September 1, 2006 – Adopt a revised interlocal agreement between City, County and School Board to establish school concurrency and proportionate share methodologies.
Useful tools to address transportationLOS issues: • Lower levels of service – More congestion. • Impact fees – Increases costs of development. • Concurrency Exemption Areas – Sidewalks and mass transit must be addressed. • Multimodal Transportation Districts - Sidewalks and mass transit must be addressed, vehicles are secondary. • Constrained Roads – Sidewalks and mass transit must be addressed and more congestion. • Master Transportation Plan/Strategy – Long term strategy, very costly
Impact • Shifts in Enrollment • Local School Choice • No Child Left Behind • Program Costs • Additional Funding for Staff/Resources • Creation of New Program Options to Attract Students – Magnet Schools/Programs • Increased Transportation
School Concurrency • Legislation enacted by the 2005 Florida Legislature (Senate Bill 360, Laws of Florida 2002-290) mandates a comprehensive focus on school planning by requiring local governments and school boards to adopt a school concurrency system. School concurrency ensures coordination between local governments and school boards in planning and permitting developments that affect school capacity and utillization rates.
Implementation of School Concurrency Local governments and school boards are required to: • Update existing public school interlocal agreements, and include the updated interlocal agreement in an amended Intergovernmental Coordination Element of the comprehensive plan (Sections 163.3177(6)(h)(1), 163.31777, F.S. and 163.3180(13), F.S.); • Adopt a Public School Facilities Element (PSFE) into the comprehensive plan (Sections 163.3180(13)(a) and 163.3177(12), F.S., and Rule 9J-5.025, F.A.C.); • Adopt level-of-service (LOS) standards to establish maximum permissible school utilization rates relative to capacity, and include LOS standards in an amended Capital Improvements Element of the comprehensive plan and in the updated interlocal agreement (Section 163.3180(13)(b), F.S.);
Implementation of School Concurrency • Establish a financially feasible Public School Capital Facilities Program and include this program in an amended Capital Improvements Element of the comprehensive plan (Section 163.3180(13)(d)1., F.S.); • Establish proportionate-share mitigation methodology and options to be included in the PSFE and the interlocal agreement (Section 163.3180(13)(e), F.S.); • Establish public school Concurrency Service Areas (CSAs) to define the geographic boundaries of school concurrency, and include the CSAs in the updated interlocal agreement and in the supporting data and analysis for the comprehensive plan (Sections 163.3180(13)(c) and 163.3180(13)(g)(5), F.S.).
Penalties & Deadlines • Failure to adopt the Public School Facilities Element, to enter into an approved update interlocal agreement, or to amend the comprehensive plan as necessary to implement school concurrency, will subject the local government to being prohibited from adopting comprehensive plan amendements that increase residential density and subjects a school board to funding withholding sanctions equivalent to the available funds for school construction. • All counties/municipalities must complete Public School Facilities Element adoptions and interlocal agreement updates no later than December 1, 2008.
